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That leads to the crucial question whether we can have the same confidence when we buy imported food in our shops and supermarkets as we have when we buy British food.
If a working dog had had its tail legally docked in England—or, indeed, if a boxer, Rottweiler or any other traditionally docked breed had had its tail docked in Ireland—it would not be an offence to buy that dog and bring it into Scotland.
I will pick up the last point about people outwith Atlantic Quay grasping performance management. Did you find evidence of buy-in from people who operate outwith the centre?
Can you confirm the story in The Scotsman on 21 December, which stated that SNH"will pay more than £1 million a year in rent for its new headquarters"when the agency could buy it outright for £13 million? That story is wrong.
It was impossible to assess whether the proposed budget would buy, for example, more or fewer teachers, more or fewer home helps, more or fewer residential care home places, or more or fewer kilometres of road.
The deadline for legislation is the end of 2002.The wider review of diligence—covering issues such as bank arrestments and debt arrangement schemes—is also making good progress at official level and I hope to issue a consultation paper around the turn of the year.We will introduce a bill to modernise the law relating to civil marriages, which will take over from Euan Robson's bill.There will be a substantial bill on land reform that will provide a right of responsible access to land and inland water, a community right to buy...
It seems a bit daft that members have to be in Edinburgh on specific days to lodge questions for when Parliament meets again. Perhaps it is like buying lottery tickets—nobody buys tickets for the lottery after next.